The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-10
The PUBLIC SCHOOL BILL
PASSED IN THE HOUSE BY A
VOTE OF so TO 40.
1t Provides for the Election Of O
State Superintendent Every
-Four Years.
The DRUGGISTS RELIEF BILL
PASSED
In the Senate by a Vote Of 81 to
11-FuIl Text or the Bill
The Days Proceedings. %
ESPECIAL TO TIE ApPxiL.i


NASHVILLE, TENN, March 9.-The
Committee ON the Suppression of the
Liquor Traffic reported Mr.. Sparkss
bill to preve st intempsrance in Ten.
Eessee for passage.
This is the bill that provides for a
liquor drinkers license. When the
committee, through Mr.. McDo we'll,
reported the bill for passage a lumi
nous smile sp. cad itself over the Sem
ate.
1.-THE Committee on Military Affairs
e,,orted the bill providing for organ
izing the militia OF the State for pas
eags.
The special order, the druggists re-
lief bill, was taken up.
Mr.. Med DWELL offsl ed the following
amendment: "Stiike out all after the
enacting clause and insert the fJllow.
ing: That sll druggists who have sold
alcoholic or vinous liquors on the pre-
ecriptioo OF regular physician for
medical purposes, and ell druggists
who have sold pure alcohol for domee-
tic, meChani a or scent fic purpo ses,
ara hereby rel eyed from all liabilities
4 for those years, but this shall not be
construed as authorizing druggists to
sell without license since January l.,
1887" 80, =
The amendment was laid on the
table.
3 Mr.. Norlnent eaid theee whisky
drug stores were the very meanest
saloons in the State for the reason that
they were presu ned to be respectable
He regarded the bill as a blind. II
this bill passed be would vote to re-
!, fund to every saloon keeper in the
State the money ne bad paid as
license.
Mr.. E wing said the question under
consideration was bold, bad propos.
ition to take from the States revenues
$l50,000, and give it to a few citizsns.
The bill WAS in reduced in the House
by the learned Elk Chancellor OF Dav-
idson County, who decided the case
against the druggists and now wants
to relieve them IN the face OF the law
on which he had decided the case.
Mr.. Ewing said the State treas
ury was today overdrawn $250,C00
and yet men stood here
ready to vote away $150,OOO of the
States m rney. Talk about ignorance
of the law. Here's Nashville, the
Athens Of the South, with such enter
prising newspapers as the Banner,
Union, and American, circu ating
everywhere, aud yet these men were
Ignorant of the law. Why, up in the
remote districts, where a covered
wagon ia curiosity, all the druggists
know the law and observed it. la
Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chat
tsnoogs, and Jackson, however, the
druggists were very ignorant, and did
not know the law. The saloon keep.
ers complied with the law, and the
druggists ought to be made to do go.
Mr., Brown favored the b 1 aud cited
the fact that Mr.. Ewing and Mr.. Nor
ment, who had so strongly argued
against the p ssage of the bill, were
more largely interested ia the collec-
ton of back taxes than any other two
men in the State.
Mr.. Padgett said the bill did not
propose to relieve any druggist in the
State who had knowingly and wilfully
violated the law.
The Argument of the gentleman on
the other side seemed to him to be in
effect that ali men shall be presumed
to be guilty. He favored the passage
OF the bill.
The bill passed its final reading by
the following vote: